A Pharmacy Director's Primer on the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009

2009 ◽  
Vol 44 (9) ◽  
pp. 813-818
Author(s):  
Lindsey R. Kelley ◽  
Shelby L. Corman ◽  
Robert J. Weber
Keyword(s):  
Patient Safety ◽  
Health Systems ◽  
Hospital Pharmacy ◽  
Patient Centered ◽  
Leadership Challenges ◽  
Specific Goal ◽  
Pharmacy Management ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Pharmacy Leaders

The Director's Forum series is written and edited by Michael Sanborn and Robert Weber and is designed for guiding pharmacy leaders in establishing patient-centered services in hospitals and health systems. Another specific goal of this column is addressing many of the key challenges that pharmacy directors currently face, while also providing information that will foster growth in pharmacy leadership and patient safety. Previous articles in this series have discussed the many different aspects of pharmacy management and leadership challenges. This feature addresses the impact of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (the Stimulus Program) on hospital pharmacy practices.

Get Smart: Effective Use of Smart Pump Technology

2009 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 348-353 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Sanborn ◽  
Tammy Cohen
Keyword(s):  
Patient Safety ◽  
Health Systems ◽  
Technology Implementation ◽  
Patient Centered ◽  
Pharmacy Technology ◽  
Specific Goal ◽  
Effective Use ◽  
Pharmacy Leaders ◽  
Effective Integration ◽  
Smart Pump

The Director's Forum series is written and edited by Michael Sanborn and Robert Weber and is designed for guiding pharmacy leaders in establishing patient-centered services in hospitals and health systems. Another specific goal of this column is addressing many of the key challenges that pharmacy directors currently face, while also providing information that will foster growth in pharmacy leadership and patient safety. Previous Director's Forum articles have discussed various aspects of pharmacy technology implementation and utilization. This feature focuses on the effective integration of smart pump technology to maximize patient safety benefits.

Innovative Roles for Pharmacy Technicians: Developing and Implementing a Unit-Based Clinical Support Pharmacy Technician Model

2008 ◽  
Vol 43 (11) ◽  
pp. 920-926 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott M. Mark ◽  
Rafael Saenz ◽  
Bryan E. Yourich ◽  
Robert J. Weber
Keyword(s):  
Patient Safety ◽  
Health Systems ◽  
Staff Satisfaction ◽  
Patient Centered ◽  
Pharmacy Technician ◽  
Clinical Support ◽  
Specific Goal ◽  
Job Growth ◽  
Pharmacy Technicians ◽  
Pharmacy Leaders

The Director's Forum series is written and edited by Michael Sanborn and Robert Weber and is designed for guiding pharmacy leaders in establishing patient-centered services in hospitals and health systems. Another specific goal of this column is addressing many of the key challenges that pharmacy directors currently face while providing information that will foster growth in pharmacy leadership and patient safety. Developing innovative roles for pharmacy technicians promotes job growth, as well as staff satisfaction and retention. This Director's Forum article describes how patient-centered roles for technicians can be developed and implemented.

Establishing a Plan for Central Pharmacy Automation

2009 ◽  
Vol 44 (5) ◽  
pp. 431-438 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas W. Glowa ◽  
Robert J. Weber
Keyword(s):  
Patient Safety ◽  
Health Systems ◽  
Technology Implementation ◽  
Patient Centered ◽  
Pharmacy Technology ◽  
Specific Goal ◽  
Pharmacy Leaders

The Director's Forum series is written and edited by Michael Sanborn and Robert Weber and is designed for guiding pharmacy leaders in establishing patient-centered services in hospitals and health systems. Another specific goal of this column is addressing many of the key challenges that pharmacy directors currently face, while also providing information that will foster growth in pharmacy leadership and patient safety. Previous Director's Forum articles have discussed various aspects of pharmacy technology implementation and utilization. This feature reviews the steps and strategies for implementing and evaluating automation in a central pharmacy area supporting a decentralized pharmaceutical model.

Consumer-Driven Health Care

2000 ◽  
Vol 35 (5) ◽  
pp. 477-478
Author(s):  
F. Randy Vogenberg
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Managed Care ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Health Systems ◽  
Quality Health Care ◽  
Managed Health Care ◽  
The Future ◽  
Quality Health ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Impact

Managed health care has changed the way health services are provided and paid for. It is still evolving. Many pharmacists have already felt the impact of these changes. This continuing feature illuminates the many facets of managed care with special emphasis placed on how these changes may affect pharmacists working in health systems. The expertise provided by pharmacists will be needed to fulfill the potential of affordable, comprehensive, and quality health care as promised by managed care. Pharmacists must understand what is happening, why it is happening, and what is likely to happen in the future. To be an active and effective player, you must understand what is happening on the field.

Reining in the Pharmacy Budget

2000 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 354-356
Author(s):  
F. Randy Vogenberg
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Managed Care ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Health Systems ◽  
Quality Health Care ◽  
Managed Health Care ◽  
The Future ◽  
Quality Health ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Impact

Managed health care has changed the way health services are provided and paid for. It is still evolving. Many pharmacists have already felt the impact of these changes. This continuing feature illuminates the many facets of managed care with special emphasis placed on how these changes may affect pharmacists working in health systems. The expertise provided by pharmacists will be needed to fulfill the potential of affordable, comprehensive, and quality health care as promised by managed care. Pharmacists must understand what is happening, why it is happening, and what is likely to happen in the future. To be an active and effective player, you must understand what is happening on the field.

Talking about and Using Pharmacoeconomics Properly

2001 ◽  
Vol 36 (7) ◽  
pp. 717-722
Author(s):  
F. Randy Vogenberg
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Managed Care ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Health Systems ◽  
Quality Health Care ◽  
Managed Health Care ◽  
The Future ◽  
Quality Health ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Impact

Managed health care has changed the way health services are provided and paid for. It is still evolving. Many pharmacists have already felt the impact of these changes. This continuing feature illuminates the many facets of managed care with special emphasis placed on how these changes may affect pharmacists working in health systems. The expertise provided by pharmacists will be needed to fulfill the potential of affordable, comprehensive, and quality health care as promised by managed care. Pharmacists must understand what is happening, why it is happening, and what is likely to happen in the future. To be an active and effective player, you must understand what is happening on the field.

Impact of Computerized Prescriber Order Entry (CPOE) on Clinical Pharmacy Practice: A Hypothesis-Generating Study

2007 ◽  
Vol 42 (10) ◽  
pp. 931-938 ◽  
Author(s):  
Josephine S. Lai ◽  
Glenn Yokoyama ◽  
Clifton Louie ◽  
Jim Lightwood
Keyword(s):  
Patient Safety ◽  
Pharmacy Practice ◽  
Order Entry ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Medical Centers ◽  
Academic Medical ◽  
Staffing Requirements ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Pharmacy Leaders ◽  
Computerized Prescriber Order Entry

Since the Institute of Medicine's 1999 landmark report on patient safety, much literature have been published to show the advantages and disadvantages of information systems such as computerized prescriber order entry (CPOE) on improving the delivery of health care. The primary end points of this study were to assess the potential impact of CPOE on patient safety, as well as pharmacy practice and profession—based on the experience and/or opinions of selected pharmacy leaders in California. A qualitative method using multidimensional scaling (MDS), a hypothesis generating tool, was used for data analysis. Most pharmacy leaders held positive opinions regarding the impact of CPOE on the pharmacy practice and the profession, with varying concerns regarding its impact on practice and safety. The MDS analysis showed that leaders from community hospitals held the most optimistic beliefs on CPOE's impact compared with leaders from the academic medical centers and government hospitals whom held concerns over the effect on pharmacy workflow, staffing requirements, and safety. Further studies with more observations should be conducted to assess the impact of CPOE on the pharmacy department.

scholarly journals Electronic Health Records, Interoperability and Patient Safety in Health Systems of High-income Countries: A Systematic Review Protocol

BMJ Open ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (7) ◽  
pp. e044941
Author(s):  
Edmond Li ◽  
Jonathan Clarke ◽  
Ana Luisa Neves ◽  
Hutan Ashrafian ◽  
Ara Darzi
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Patient Safety ◽  
Electronic Health Records ◽  
Health Systems ◽  
Risk Of Bias ◽  
High Income ◽  
The Body ◽  
Health Records ◽  
Electronic Health ◽  
The Impact

IntroductionThe availability and routine use of electronic health records (EHRs) have become commonplace in healthcare systems of many high-income countries. While there is an ever-growing body of literature pertaining to their use, evidence surrounding the importance of EHR interoperability and its impact on patient safety remains less clear. There is, therefore, a need and opportunity to evaluate the evidence available regarding this relationship so as to better inform health informatics development and policies in the years to come. This systematic review aims to evaluate the impact of EHR interoperability on patient safety in health systems of high-income countries.Methods and analysisA systematic literature review will be conducted via a computerised search through four databases: PubMed, Embase, Health Management Information Consortium and PsycInfo for relevant articles published between 2010 and 2020. Outcomes of interest will include impact on patient safety and the broader effects on health systems. Quality of the randomised quantitative studies will be assessed using Cochrane Risk of Bias Tool. Non-randomised papers will be evaluated with the Risk of Bias In Non-Randomised Studies—of Interventions tool. Drummond’s Checklist will be used for publications pertaining to economic evaluation. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence quality appraisal checklist will be used to assess qualitative studies. A narrative synthesis will be conducted for included studies, and the body of evidence will be summarised in a summary of findings table.Ethics and disseminationThis review will summarise published studies with non-identifiable data and, thus, does not require ethical approval. Findings will be disseminated through preprints, open access peer-reviewed publications, and conference presentations.PROSPERO registration numberCRD42020209285.

Introducing diversity to Balint Groups: Leadership challenges

2019 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-29
Author(s):  
Jeffrey L Sternlieb
Keyword(s):  
The United States ◽  
Policy Statement ◽  
Group Leaders ◽  
Patient Centered ◽  
Leadership Challenges ◽  
Patient Centered Medicine ◽  
Balint Group ◽  
Patient Relationships ◽  
Interactive Exercises ◽  
The Impact

In an effort to more fully integrate Michael Balint’s vision of Patient Centered Medicine with the explosive emergence in the United States of issues of diversity and social determinants of health, the American Balint Society has placed a high priority to develop an explicit initiative designed to emphasize the importance of diversity issues in patient care. This initiative began with the discernment of a policy statement and has continued with interactive exercises at National meetings, first designed to create an understanding of the impact of marginalization and next to explore the responsibility and options for Balint Group leaders to guide their groups in considering the impact of diversity in the challenging doctor–patient relationships frequently presented to their groups. This article is a description of such an effort, including results and discussion of continued development of Balint Group leadership.

scholarly journals World Patient Safety Day: the Tuscany region at the forefront of quality of care

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 221-222
Author(s):  
Sara Albolino ◽  
Giulia Dagliana
Keyword(s):  
Patient Safety ◽  
Adverse Events ◽  
Health Systems ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Care Delivery ◽  
Clinical Care ◽  
Patient Safety Culture ◽  
World Health ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Echoing the World Health Organization’s (WHO) request, the Patient Safety Declaration, launched by Health First Europe at the European Parliament, calls on policymakers, authorities and health professionals, patients and citizens to come together to build health systems that can help health professionals work better for patient-centred outcomes. The objective is to prevent the occurrence of adverse events arising from clinical care activities to focus resources on reducing the impact of the disease by promoting safer health systems and higher quality standards for patient safety in Europe. The Declaration intends to promote a European patient safety culture, starting with safety practices and exchanging effective practices to reduce adverse events arising from health activities. Tuscany, the fifth largest region of Italy, is strongly committed to make this happen. Its Regional Centre for Clinical Risk Management and Patient Safety and WHO Collaborating Centre (GRC Centre—Centro Gestione Rischio Clinico e Sicurezza del Paziente) aims at developing and promoting practices for safety, awareness raising and the analysis of adverse events for the constant improvement of care delivery.

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